This wikiHow teaches you how to remove specific music items, such as artists, albums, or songs, from your iPhone.

Steps

Method1

Deleting Music from Your iPhone's Hard Drive

1

Open your iPhone's Settings. It's the grey app with a gear icon that's likely found on the Home Screen.

2

Tap General. You should see this option toward the bottom of the screen.

3

Tap Storage & iCloud Usage. It's toward the bottom of the screen.

4

Tap Manage Storage under the "Storage" section. This section is at the top of the page.

5

Tap Music. It's the white app with a multicolored musical note on its front.

Since the apps here are organized by the amount of space they take up, your Music app's location will vary.

6

Decide on what you want to delete. You can delete every song on your iPhone from the "All Songs" category at the top of this page, or you can delete an artist from the list below "All Songs". Additionally, you can be more specific:

Tap a specific artist's name to view their "Albums" page.

Tapping a specific album's name to view its songs.

7

Tap Edit. It will be in the top-right corner of the screen on any of the pages within the "Music" section.

8

Tap the red circle to the left of an option. Make sure you're doing this next to the song, album, or artist you wish to remove from your iPhone.

9

Tap Delete. It's on the far-right side of your selected option. Doing so will immediately remove your song, album, or artist both from the Music app and from your iPhone.

10

Tap Done when you're finished. This option is in the top-right corner of the screen. Your selected music items are now gone from your iPhone.

Method2

Deleting Songs from the Music App

1

Open Music. This app looks like a musical note on a white background.

2

Tap Library. This tab is in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

If Music opens to the "Library" page, skip this step.

3

Tap Songs. It's in the middle of the screen. While you can't delete artists or albums from the Music app, you can remove individual songs.

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Tap a song. Doing so will begin playing it in a tab at the bottom of the screen.

You may have to scroll down to locate your song.

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Tap the song's tab. It's at the bottom of the screen; doing so will pull up the song's page.

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Tap …. It's in the bottom-right side of the screen, just below the volume slider.

Depending on your phone's screen size, you may have to scroll down first.

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Tap Delete from Library. This option is near the top of the pop-up menu here.

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Tap Delete Song. It's at the bottom of the screen. Your selected song will immediately be removed from your iPhone.

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Tips

If you simply want to remove all Apple Music subscription data from your iPhone, you'll need to open Settings, scroll down to tap Music, and slide the "Show Apple Music" switch to the "Off" (left) position.

Warnings

Removing music from your iPhone doesn't remove it from iTunes on your computer. As such, selected music may re-synchronize with your phone the next time you attach it to your computer.

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Sep 7, 2016

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